The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Jeremy Rifkin 3.0 out of 5 stars Never Mind the Total Cost Terminal Society, April 13, 2014 Books like this would make me crazy if I took them seriously. This is a fad book for shallow minds that have no clue about holistic analytics, true cost economics, or anything remotely resembling the humanities (which is …
Empowering Your Health: Beyond Monsanto, Rockefeller and the American Medical Association By Kimberly Carter Gamble with Erin Breech When your doctor tells you your prescription is approved by the American Medical Association (AMA), it’s intended to give you confidence. But what it really means is that the drug or procedure is endorsed and funded by …
America – a failed state? By Johan Galtung Transnational.org, 3 April 2014 Depends, of course, on the criteria. A state has an inside towards its citizens, and an outside toward the state system. Depends on domestic and foreign policy, in other words. That means it can fail in two ways, by not catering to its …
The Trillions of Dollars U.S. Companies Are Hoarding Overseas And a tax repatriation holiday is no way to get them to bring it all back home. Matthew O’Brien The Atlantic Monthly, Mar 31 2014 There’s a lot of cash on the sidelines, but those sidelines aren’t in the U.S. They’re overseas—in tax shelters. According to …
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Following are some poignant quotes that might be considered a backdrop for our Cosmically Adequate (CA) consideration/pursuit/exploration: R. Buckminster Fuller 45 quotes Daniel Quinn 37 quotes Alex Gerber 22 quotes Mary Baker Eddy 20 quotes David Brower 14 quotes Jean Liedloff 10 quotes Robert Fritz 6 quotes Alan Weisman 5 quotes Pete Carroll 4 quotes …
Huh? Development data: how accurate are the figures? The numbers we use in development, and most of what we think of as facts, are actually estimates. It’s time for a data revolution Claire Melarned The Guardian, 31 January 2014 You know a lot less than you think you do. Around 1.22 billion people live on …
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Michel Bauwens on the democratization of the means of monetization In this new work, Michel continues to propose powerful ideas that not only demonstrate his capacity for synthesis, but more importantly, his capacity to articulate ideas that facilitate points of convergence between broad sectors that are sympathetic to the ideas of production based on the …
